Hell, it's almost like if Nintendo decided to keep FE Japan-only after FE12 because of how FE11 performed. So much has changed then and it's a different market from what it was before. Without at least a measure of success over there, this franchise will begin a slow decline to being dormant for another 15 years or so.Īnd like, why even bother remaking a game with the idea that this is supposed to test the waters for future releases and omit it from your domestic market? That's so absurd that Nintendo is making their decision to omit this game from Japan based on the commercial performance of Dual Strike 16 years ago. It's the reason why franchises that do well in Japan but not so much in the West are given higher billing. If you're not successful in one part of the world, you get low-billing and are eventually made to be an afterthought. Just relying on NA/EU sales isn't going to cut it. It's the same reason why this series went on hiatus for 14 years after Days of Ruin. IMO, it's crucial that this game does well in Japan. Reminder tweets about this game in the months after E3 as well as character overview tweets would have been very welcome (also keeping the game in the public's eye). It's October now and we're like 8 weeks from this game releasing. Sure sure, there's Metroid Dread and all but it's not encouraging when the last time we heard either Nintendo or WayForward talk about Advance Wars was back in June. Despite this, I do think the remakes will sell decently enough but quite honestly, "decent" isn't going to be enough if we're going to get higher-budget sequels and entries in this franchise that aren't excluded from one region in the world. Nintendo not marketing this game to the degree it needs to be marketed is worrisome. With that in mind, the situation is rather egregious and also kinda stressful to think about. If this series has any hope for the future, it needs to make an impact and failing to do so will result in a negative outcome for this franchise, not unlike what happened to Advance Wars post-Days of Ruin.
If people choose to skip out or are turned away by the art style or price tag, that's very bad for this franchise. I think it has a lot more to do than "just missing out". And should Re-Boot Camp do well sales-wise, it's inclusion would be even more justified by even the semi-casual Smash Bros audience. I'm just saying Advance Wars has it's historical impact and it's critical acclaim attached to it that most people would respect it's inclusion. Sure, those people exist that degrade 1st party characters of any kind or even lower-level 3rd party characters.
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